[Nagiosplug-devel] New check_procs design (was: New plugins, autoconf & pre-built bi naries)

[Voon, Ton]

I find that if I can see what the syntax will be, I can almost see the code
in my head. My head is a wierd place, but it's home :-)

One limitation of your example is: what about critical for vsz > 10K, but
warn if vsz > 5K? Your example would normalize everything down to number of
processes. 

I can see two ways round:
1) a --metric flag so that the metric returned is # of processes, %cpu, vsz,
etc
2) threshold metric based on calling program name (check_procs returns
processes, check_procs_cpu returns %cpu)

Any other ideas?

I guess output would also be different based on the metric, so the general
output is:
{CRITICAL|WARNING|OK}: {process names that fail thresholds (value of metric
used)}

As for the actual work, I can do the configure.in stuff and merging the
current OR filters, but I don't think I can handle the new-style filters.
Besides, my baby is due next week so I can't see much time ahead...

Ton

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Karl DeBisschop [SMTP:karl at debisschop.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:33 AM
> To:	NagiosPlug Devel
> Subject:	Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] New plugins, autoconf & pre-built
> binaries
> 
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 17:45, Ton Voon wrote:
> > Good idea re: AND and OR option in filters.
> > 
> > I see where you are going with this (run a huge ps command and then run 
> > a db-like query on results), but what would the syntax look like?
> 
> I dn't really know, but I do think getting the syntax 'right' may be
> fully as hard as the coding.
> 
> I have in mind right now a syntax sort of like POSIC 'test'
> 
> check_procs --test (VSZ -gt 100 -o SIZE -gt 100) -a STATE -eq Z -a UID
> -eq 500 -w 5: -c 10:
> 
> But that's only what comes to mind at the moment. I suspect there are
> better solutions that I'm not imaginative enough to think of.
> 
> --
> Karl
> 


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